The Latin Bridge

Click here to hear this crucial message by Pastor and Missionary Austin Gardner.  It will help you understand why and how we should focus on church planting.  

Are you serious?  Could you possibly be inferring that Latin America doesn’t need anymore missionaries?  Should we celebrate and retire because our job is done in Latin America? The above picture is actually from the back of a prayer card I picked up from a fellow missionary at a conference a few months ago.  Not surprisingly, [...]

A few years back a lady in my home town was convicted of murdering two men.  Her weapon of choice was antifreeze.  Death by antifreeze is slow and virtually undetectable by the victim.   Its sweet taste makes an easy cover to disguise the poison.  She slowly added antifreeze to the food of both her victims, until they were dead! [...]

I want to challenge every missionary to listen to this sermon by Missionary to Kenya Randy Stirewalt speaking on how to do mission work. I am very impressed with him and the ministry. He is preaching on the Biblical Method for church planting. This man will be speaking at the Latin Bridge retreat January 6-7, 2012. Make plans to [...]

A great many learned men are defending the gospel; no doubt it is a very proper and right thing to do, yet I always notice that, when there are most books of that kind, it is because the gospel itself is not being preached. Suppose a number of persons were to take it into their [...]

Should all missionaries be church planters?  I’m sure the answer is no, although I firmly believe ALMOST ALL missionaries should be church planters!  Let me know what you think about this article from my church planting friend in north Africa. Of Coffee Shops, Indigenous Worship Leaders, English Classes, and Boy’s Homes I am in Northern China right [...]

Can you imagine spending long, exhausting days plowing and preparing a vast field?  Can you imagine then carefully planting your crops and waiting for weeks to see that crop begin to sprout and grow ever so steadily?  See yourself pulling weeds, keeping away the birds and small animals that would love to feast on the [...]

Here is a quick excerpt about Hudson Taylor from a book. I don’t endorse everything he did, but this short introduction to his ministry is interesting and encouraging! Pray for more laborers that truly want the Christian faith taken to the interior of China. Radical missionary Taylor was born to James and Amelia Taylor, a [...]

Here’s a great article by one of our partners about an upcoming church planting seminar. As a church planter in Chile, I am very excited to attend the upcoming Church Planting Seminar for Our Generation. Dr. Earl Jessup will be our keynote speaker for this practical, motivating conference. The Seminar is open to the public free of [...]